Pepsi pulls Kendall Jenner advert amid outcry

Pepsi has pulled an advert that sparked an outcry and accusations that the drinks maker was trivialising recent street protests across the US.The advert featured reality TV star Kendall Jenner leaving a photo shoot to join a heavily policed demonstration.She defuses the tension by walking to ...

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....In July, Victoria Geoghegan was fired from Bell Pottinger at the same time as it made a U-turn, offering an “unequivocal and absolute apology” for an “inappropriate and offensive” social media campaign. The PR agency had initially maintained it was the victim of a smear campaign involving “totally false and damaging accusations”. ...

....A spokesman for Birds Eye said it adapted its products to local tastes. Florence Ranson, a spokeswoman for FoodDrink Europe, the representative group for the industry, said: “I would like to stress that we do take the accusations of alleged dual quality very seriously. ...

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.... The report, which is expected to produce a series of policy initiatives when it unveils final conclusions next autumn, also said ministers must tackle the market dominance of digital companies such as Amazon, Facebook and Google. A spokesman for the Treasury said the chancellor, Philip Hammond, rejected the accusations in the report that the government had cut investment and presided over a rise in inequality. ...

.... This was the same month that the PR firm’s chief executive, James Henderson, offered an “unequivocable and absolute” apology for an “inappropriate and offensive” social media campaign. The agency had previously insisted it was the victim of a smear campaign involving “totally false and damaging accusations”. ...

....The PRCA’s professional practices committee and board voted unanimously to terminate Bell Pottinger’s membership. Bell Pottinger resigned the Oakbay account in April, at the time saying it was the victim of a smear campaign involving “totally false and damaging accusations”. ...